After watching CBS Evening News this week I have a suggestion for them.  They should stop kidding themselves and everyone else and change their lettering to DNC.  At least that would be honest, which is clearly not a strong suit of the drive-by media.  The only people that I can think of that would even believe the partisan drivel that is passed off as objective news must be a part of the 33% that beleives 9/11 was an inside job.  Let me give you just a few examples.

The first night on the air, Katie Couric was determined to undermine George Bush's attempt to stick up for his record on the war on terror in a speech earlier that day.  It didn't even cross her mind to simply show some clips from the speech and let the public make up their mind.  Such a novel idea would have meant passing up an opportunity to propagandize.  So what does she do?  She parades out Thomas Friedman and asks him what he thinks of the President's speech, and we all know that the New York Times, with which Friedman is a columnist, is politically neutral.  Basically Couric handed Friedman an opportunity to show his true genius.  He says that the public won't listen to Bush's rhetoric about how long and hard a struggle the war on terror will be, because it's too pessimistic.  He claims that the American people want hope and not negativity, as if the Democratic party and the media has had one positive thing to say about this country in the last five years.  Since when have terms such as failure, quagmire, another Vietnam, misled, and the daily barage of pessimism from Democratic leaders and the media been about hope.  The only thing they hope for is that this country will abandon Iraq, guaranteeing the deaths of over 2,500 hundred American soldiers will be for nothing, and that President Bush will be impeached for--you got it--trying to protect America.  I guess that when compared to perjury and obstruction of justice, protecting the nation is pretty heinous.

So lets get this straight.  When Bush prepares Americans for the long road ahead, they should reject his message as pessimism.  Wait a second, the Left also condemns the President when he is too positive.  How many times have they accused him of lying to the nation and painting too rosy a picture?  How many times have they demeaned the banner that prematurely read "Mission Accomplished"?  So which is it, Mr. Fiedman?  Could it just be that no matter what the president says, you will find something to complain about, and thanks to your position in the Media your opinion will be treated as sacrosanct by the likes of Katie Couric?

And tonight we have a repeat performance, although a much more obvious hatchet job.  The liberal media just can't beleive the president won't stop talking and crawl into a corner as they would like.  What nerve, for Bush to speak publically in defence of his policies.  Shouldn't the likes of Couric be able to monopolize any dialogue about the success or failure of the administrations policies?  Katie sure thinks so, and so do the leading Democratic politicians outraged that Bush dares go on the offensive.  CBS's attempt to counter Bush's message today was to claim that the release of an Al Qaida tape over five years old was a political slapdown to the administration.  Couric's point was basically, "See, Bush says were safe, but look--a pre 9/11 video tape!"  As she struggled not to hide behind her newsdesk in abject fear, we are led to believe that Al Qaida's ability to put a tape on Al Jazeera showing long-dead highjackers negates the fact that we havn't been attacked on U.S. soil since they met their deaths five years ago.  Katie follows this gem of logic by parading various Democratic politicians on who claim that we aren't safe from videotapes and that Bush's incessant speeches should be called a "Fear and Smear Campaign."  And then she allowed a conservative politician to show the other side.  Opps, sorry.  There is no side but the Left when it comes to network news.  Couric then goes on to say how unpoular the war is in America.  You can see the fear in her eyes, that some people might actually rally behind the president as a result of his speeches and are in immediate need of deprogramming.  Katie quotes a recent New York Times poll (hmm, do you see a pattern?) that shows that Bush's approval ratings are falling, in spite of his recent speechifying.  Simply ignore that many other recent polls show the exact opposite, believe the New York Times.  She then puts on a retired Marine officer that was dug up God knows where (perhaps off a moveon.org website?) and gives him airtime to lecture the president on the "failure" of Iraq.  What gives this guy's opinion any weight over anyone else's opinion in America?  Because he's portrayed by Couric as a straghtshooting, patriotic, voice of the people.  I wonder how many voices they had to ignore before they found a puppet with military credentials. 

Basically, half of the CBS Evening News tonight might as well have been a Democratic election commercial.  It hit all the Left's talking points and was clearly nothing but a pathetic attempt to rebut Bush's latest round of speeches.  And they wonder why people turn to alternative forms of media.